1249 Laguna Avenue

  • 3

    Beds

  • 2

    Baths

  • 1,604 sq ft

    Home Size

  • 6,000 sq ft

    Lot Size

Sold

$2,550,000

Overview

Picture-Perfect Craftsman Just One Block From Broadway

Picture perfect inside and out, this is an excellent place to call home in Burlingame, just one block from Broadway for convenient shopping and dining. A classic picket fence frames the manicured lawn and gardens, and a brick walkway leads to the elevated and covered front entrance. An extensive renovation reconfigured the front of the home in 2016, allowing for expanded living space inside, while still honoring the home’s circa 1920 heritage and architectural integrity within this sought-after neighborhood.

Inside the main home, hardwood floors are found throughout along with details that give a nod to the home’s early Craftsman style. Up-lit coved ceilings highlight the numerous windows, all replaced during the renovation, in the living and dining room combination. A fireplace facade and built-in china cabinetry, along with chair rail moldings and dropped crown moldings, add to the appeal of this spacious central room. The kitchen is beautifully updated with white cabinetry, some with glass fronts, topped in absolute black granite and has stainless steel or white appliances, including a gas range. Providing wonderful everyday living space is the adjoining family room with convenient outside entrance that leads to the detached garage and rear yard.

Personal accommodations comprise 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in the main home, plus there is a detached studio with bathroom that is perfect for today’s work-from-home needs and/or temporary guest stays and added playroom space. There is a lovely primary bedroom suite privately located at the rear of the home, just off the family room, plus two bedrooms, including the newly constructed, spacious front bedroom. Details like beadboard wainscot add a Craftsman touch to both bathrooms and custom organizers add functionality to wardrobe closets. Rounding out the home is a painted basement with windows that offers flexible space for play, a wine cellar, or work area. Plus, there is plenty of space for outdoor living with a large deck, lawn, and gated driveway. This family-friendly neighborhood with tree-lined streets is also just two blocks from Laguna Park with playground and has access to excellent Burlingame schools, including Lincoln Elementary less than one mile away. Welcome home!

  • Built in

    1920

  • Listed

    2 years ago

  • Neighborhood

  • Schools

    Lincoln Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, Burlingame High School (buyer to verify)


Amenities

  • Extensively updated circa 1920 Craftsman bungalow

  • 3 bedrooms, family room, and 2 bathrooms plus detached studio with bathroom

  • Main home has approximately 1,604 square feet of living space (per county records)

  • A classic picket fence, lush front lawn, and brick walkway frame the entrance to this beautifully renovated home just one block from shops and restaurants on Broadway

  • A reconfigured front entrance, as part of an extensive renovation in 2016, creates a welcoming covered porch while allowing for a newly constructed front bedroom; freshly painted exteriors showcase the home’s Craftsman style

  • The front door, with inset glass panes, opens to an inviting foyer with window; beautiful hardwood floors are introduced

  • A spacious living and dining room combination features up-lit coved ceiling details above all the windows and across the front of the room; chair rail moldings and dropped crown moldings encircle the space, and all millwork is classic Craftsman style

  • The living area has a fireplace with painted brick surround flanked by windows

  • The dining area features a wall of recessed cabinetry and display shelves perfect for china and crystal storage

  • Beautifully updated kitchen features white cabinetry topped in absolute black granite slab and maple floors

  • Appliances include a GE gas range, Maytag dishwasher, and LG refrigerator

  • Family room, off the kitchen and primary suite, has solid hardwood floors, a glass-paned door to the side driveway, crown moldings, a center drum light, and large closet

  • Expanded newly constructed front bedroom, just off the living room, has a lighted ceiling fan, front and side windows, and a closet with sliding doors

  • Second bedroom features a lighted ceiling fan and closet with custom organizers

  • Remodeled hallway bathroom has a granite-topped vanity, tile floor, beadboard wainscot, and tub with overhead shower surrounded in crisp white tile; a window provides added light and ventilation

  • Privately located primary suite has side- and rear-facing windows, a wardrobe closet with organizers, and remodeled en suite bathroom with Corian-topped vanity, beadboard accents, and Corian shower with frameless-glass enclosure

  • Bright and light painted basement with narrow windows provides flexible space for a playroom, wine cellar, and/or work area

  • Detached studio, perfect for short-term guests, today’s home office, or a playroom, has windows on three sides, a walk-in closet, and bathroom with shower

  • Other features include: laundry area with sink and LG washer and dryer; detached 2-car garage; security alarm; updated electrical; replaced all windows and roof in 2016; new water heater in 2020; newly painted exterior

  • Inviting rear yard with spacious deck between the garage and guest studio, lush lawn, and perimeter gardens

  • Lot size of approximately 6,000 square feet

  • One block from shops and restaurants on Broadway and less than 1.5 miles from Burlingame Avenue; two blocks to Laguna Park with playground and tennis courts

  • Top-rated Burlingame schools, including Lincoln Elementary


Burlingame

Burlingame Grove

2022 was a blip on the ambitions of Burlingame Grove. Last year, after a strong 2021 ($2.559 average home value, average DOM of 10), Burlingame Grove had a softer year like most neighborhoods. Average prices dropped 3% and DOM more than doubled, to 22. The average price per square foot and sale-to-list price percentage also fell and total sales dropped from 22 to 9. Sales were evenly spaced between $1 million to 2 million (4), $2 to $3 million (4) and $3+ million (2), in contrast to 2021, when over a quarter of homes sold in Burlingame Grove closed escrow for $3 million-plus.


To view a detailed google map of the Burlingame Grove neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 467.

Favorable

  • Reasonable pricing

  • Lincoln Elementary School

  • The neighborhood literally smells like chocolate when Guittard Chocolate across Rollins Road is making chocolate!

Adverse

  • Homes are smaller than those west of El Camino

Explore Burlingame Grove

Burlingame is one of the few areas that has maintained its gracious charm and timeless elegance over the decades. A favorite among families, Burlingame’s two main shopping areas, Burlingame Avenue and Broadway, attract a wide variety of shoppers discovering its boutiques, restaurants, dessert places, and clothing stores. Home to fresh farmer’s markets every Sunday morning in the summer and fall, jazz concerts in Washington Park, and a yearly Art in the Park fair, Burlingame is a wonderful place to start a family or retire later in life, and is well equipped for both!

Its tree lined streets offer an abundance of architecture and style of homes, from quaint two bedroom bungalows to thoughtfully designed four and five bedrooms.

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Timeless elegance
Renowned small town, community feel
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Top schools
Top rated schools
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Tree lined streets
Burlingame is well known for it’s beautiful trees: each of its 15,000 trees is visited at least once every five years for care, and Burlingame has been a Tree City USA for over 30 consecutive years.
Explore Burlingame

If you’re looking to buy a home in Burlingame in a particular public elementary school district, this unique google map will help you identify the geographic boundaries for enrollment of each school. This map was assembled from data from the school district website (handy for quickly identifying what school a particular address is assigned to), and is reliable but not guaranteed.

If you have more specific questions about schools in Burlingame, please contact Raziel. To verify enrollment in the event it is impacted, contact the Burlingame School District.

All addresses in Burlingame go to Burlingame High School (In 2003, the district lines were redrawn to incorporate this change). Burlingame High is within the San Mateo Union High School District (not the Burlingame School District, which includes all five public elementary schools and BIS). To verify enrollment information, please contact the High School District.

Burlingame shares a common history with neighbors San Mateo, Millbrae and Hillsborough, but only up to a point. Like the surrounding communities, Burlingame was once the site of native Costanoan villages and then part of a Mexican land grant (Rancho Buri Buri to the north and Rancho San Mateo to the south). Burlingame’s history diverges from that of nearby Peninsula cities in the late 1800s, when Francis Newlands, son-in-law of landowner and Nevada Senator William Sharon, came up with a plan to turn this stretch of real estate into a playground for San Francisco’s wealthiest residents.

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